All Posts: health disparities
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Medical Center Deans Discuss Future of Health at GU Black Alumni Summit
(October 23, 2022) — Closing the health-disparities gap in Black communities throughout the U.S. requires a commitment to providing an anti-racism curriculum that teaches health equity to future leaders and practitioners in health care, explained three Georgetown deans during the biennial Georgetown University Black Alumni Summit in Washington. Since 2015, Georgetown University has hosted the […]
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Studying Strategies to Achieve Men’s Health Equity
(July 30, 2022) — As founder and director of the Center for Men’s Health Equity, Derek Griffith, PhD, strives to solve a mystery: Why do men, on average, live shorter lives than women, and what can be done to reduce that disparity? “When you look at sex differences and gender differences in the incidence and […]
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Washington-area Health Leaders Gather for School of Health Celebration
(July 1, 2022) — Leaders from Washington-area foundations, organizations and agencies engaged in work to alleviate health disparities joined with friends, family and Georgetown colleagues for an early celebration of the new School of Health launching July 1. The gathering in Georgetown on June 23 had been postponed in April due to COVID and was […]
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To Close Racial Health Inequity Chasm, a Comprehensive Audit of Historical Policies, Events and Practices is Needed
WASHINGTON (February 7, 2022) — A thorough examination of federal as well as local — city, county, and state — historical policies, practices and events is imperative to fully understand why health disparities exist and persist, posits a Georgetown University team of researchers. Writing in the February 2022 “Racism & Health” issue of Health Affairs, […]
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Starting Mammography at Age 40 Would Reduce Disparities in Deaths for Black Women
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NHS Department Partners with MedStar Health on New Community Health Needs Assessment
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Georgetown AHEC Prepares the Next Generation of Primary Care Professionals
(June 18, 2021) — As a college student shadowing in an emergency department, Lorrane Kabert, MD (M’21), frequently found herself wondering what happened to patients after her shift ended and if they received adequate follow-up care. “I truly enjoyed speaking with patients and learned that many of them did not have doctors that they saw […]
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Two Georgetown Lombardi Researchers Win Top Award in Back-to-Back Years
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Georgetown Faculty, Students Testify in Support of Resolution to Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis in DC
Update: On December 1, 2020 the DC Council voted in favor of a resolution declaring racism as a public health crisis. (November 8, 2020) — Members of the Georgetown University community testified in support of a proposed resolution declaring racism a public health crisis at a recent DC Council Committee on Health public roundtable. Representatives […]
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Georgetown Nursing Professor Named 2020 Health Disparities Institute Scholar
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